Douglas George | |||||||
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George in 1996
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Born |
Atwater, California |
November 5, 1960 ||||||
Achievements | 1990 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour Champion 1995 NASCAR Winston West Series Champion |
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Awards |
1990 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour Rookie-of-the-Year 2009 Inductee to the |
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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
2 races run over 1 year | |||||||
Best finish | 55th - 1995 (Winston Cup) | ||||||
First race | 1995 Save Mart Supermarkets 300 (Sears Point) | ||||||
Last race | 1995 Dura Lube 500 (Phoenix) | ||||||
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career | |||||||
56 races run over 5 years | |||||||
Best finish | 12th - 1996 (Craftsman Truck Series) | ||||||
First race | 1996 Florida Dodge Dealers 400 (Homestead) | ||||||
Last race | 2000 Kroger 225 (Kentucky) | ||||||
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1990 NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour Rookie-of-the-Year
Doug George (born November 5, 1960) is an American professional driver and mechanic. He currently serves as the crew chief of the No. 81 Toyota Tundra driven by Ryan Truex in the Camping World Truck Series.
He began racing professionally in the 1980s, driving for his own team. In 1990, he won the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series Rookie of the Year award. He later moved to the NASCAR Winston West Series, where he won Rookie of the Year honors and later, the 1995 series championship.
George made his NASCAR debut in 1995 at Sears Point International Raceway. Driving the #07 Olson Technology Ford Thunderbird, he qualified 42nd and finished 31st in the Winston Cup race. He ran an additional race that season at Phoenix International Raceway, where he finished 41st after a wreck. In 1996, he ran the Craftsman Truck Series in the #21 Ortho Ford F-150. He had a fifth-place run at Sears Point, and finished 12th in the standings, runner-up to Bryan Reffner in the Rookie of the Year battle.
In 1997, George began drivin the #12 Chevrolet Silverado for Bob Blake.He drove for a variety of teams that season, his best finish an eighth at Sonoma for Charles Hardy. He began the 1998 in the #26 MB Motorsports Ford, posting two thirtieth-place finishes. Late in the season, he joined Liberty Racing, driving the #84 Porter-Cable Power Tools Ford and had a tenth at Sonoma, before finishing the season in Liberty's #98 Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce Ford, where had his worst finish with Liberty, fifteenth.